Rules of Procedure for the National People’s Congress (1989) was promulgated in 1989 and entered into force on April 4, 1989.

There are 54 articles in total.

The key points of this law are as follows:

1.The National People’s Congress shall meet in session in the first quarter of each year. When the Standing Committee of the National People ’s Congress deems it necessary, or upon a proposal by at least one fifth of the number of deputies to the National People’s Congress, an interim session of the National People’s Congress may be convened. (Article 2)

2.Sessions of the National People’s Congress shall be convened by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress. The first session of each National People’s Congress shall be convened by the Standing Committee of the previous National People’s Congress within two months of the election of deputies to the current National People’s Congress. (Article 3)

3.Sessions of the National People’s Congress shall be held only when two thirds or more of the number of deputies are present. (Article 4)

4.Before a session of the National People’s Congress is held, a preparatory meeting shall be convened to elect the Presidium and the Secretary-General, adopt the agenda for the session and make decisions on other preparations for the session. (Article 8)

5.The Presidium shall preside over the sessions of the National People’s Congress. (Article 9)

6.The Presidium, the Standing Committee and the special committees of the National People’s Congress, the State Council, the Central Military Commission, the Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate may submit to the National People’s Congress bills or proposals that fall within the scope of its functions and powers, which shall be put on the agenda of a session by decision of the Presidium. (Article 21)

7.A delegation or a group of thirty or more deputies may submit to the National People’s Congress bills or proposals that fall within the scope of its functions and powers. (Article 21)

8.At a session of the National People’s Congress, elections shall be conducted, and appointments decided by secret ballot. Candidates shall be elected, and decisions adopted by a simple majority vote of all the deputies. (Article 36)

9.Bills or proposals put to the vote at a plenary meeting of a session shall be adopted by a simple majority vote of all the deputies. (Article 52)

10.An amendment to the Constitution shall be adopted by two thirds or more of the votes of all the deputies. (Article 52) )